AMOAD
Arcade Machine on a Disk

When arcade emulators first became available, they typically emulated just one or two games, and you could fit the game and ROM's on a floppy.  Things were kept simple, and you could play a quick game during the lunch hour at work, and no one would know.

With the advent of huge multi-game emulators of the likes of M.A.M.E. and Retrocade, gone are the days of having that quick game of Space Invaders on your lunch hour. Hiding over 50Mb of software from the prying eyes of network administrators and all the new operating systems & tools that they have to play with these days can have its effects on your time and pleasure. 

     
Screen captures of AMOAD emulating Space Invaders, Frogger, Pengo, and Phoenix
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The concept of AMOAD is to revert once more, back to single arcade machine emulation software which can be booted directly from your floppy drive, thus leaving absolutely no trace of any of those lunchtime treats.   It also has the added bonus of making the task of setting up and running emulation software all that more easier for the unsuspecting. ;-)

Currently, there are 22 AMOAD emulators, including Crazy Climber, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Galaga to name a few.  Another 14, such as Q*Bert, Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong are under development.

Go to the AMOAD homepage

This emulator can be downloaded directly from it's homepage.

NOTE: In order to run this emulator, you must have the emulator itself, and a copy of the ROM's from the original system.  The emulator itself is Freeware.  The ROM's are copyrighted by the programmer or the manufacturer. You are only legally entitled to do so if you own the actual game, or a PCB/ROM Cartridge from the game that you are emulating. If you decide to download ROM's to test out an emulator, you must delete the ROM's within 24 hours unless you own the equipment mentioned above.

ROM's may be found at many sites, including EMUCLASSICS.